Temptation

After Eva’s incredibly brief hearing, she was hustled back via hopper to the holding facility, and ushered back into her cell. Once she was there, the facility administrator opened up a comm with her, and gave her a spiel on how the next few cycles were going to go.

But Eva tuned all that out as well. She simply wasn’t interested in anything any longer.

Her mind remained cloudy and angry and frustrated and confused after everything that had happened. It was all a wild mix that tore at her from the inside, as though a storm raged on within. And destroyed everything in its path.

It barely registered when their conversation ended, and she was left alone again in her cell. She mindlessly paced back and forth across the floor as she wrestled with it all. The unfairness of it all was overwhelming her, and her heart couldn’t help but roil against it.

It ate at her, and further complicated the powerlessness she felt.